Three students from Frank Porter Graham Elementary School recently advanced to the national finals in the Storytubes Competition, in which students submit a video of themselves talking about their favorite books. The students who advanced in the competition are first-grader Euniiq Harrell and fourth-graders Jacob Zinn and David Maffly-Kipp.
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School Brief: Photo gallery
Students participating in the 21st Century Community Learning Center program will hold a gallery exhibition of their photography on Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Extraordinary Ventures on South Elliot Road. The show, entitled “Through Our Eyes: Reflections on Social Justice,†will display the photography of Jonathan “Chuck†Beck of Carrboro High School; DeMario…
School Brief: Choir TV
The Honors Chamber Choir of Chapel Hill High School appeared on WCPE’s “Great Sacred Music†show on Sunday from 8:30 to 9 a.m. The choir received an honorable mention in the Triangle Youth Chorus Awards.
School Brief: Teen group lunch
The Coalition for Alcohol and Drug Free Teenagers of Chapel Hill and Carrboro will hold a spring lunch meeting at Squid’s Restaurant on May 22 at noon. Members will provide an update regarding coalition initiatives and hear concerns and other input from participants.
School Brief: Doodle 4 Google
Allison Press, a freshman at Chapel Hill High School, was chosen on Monday as one of 40 finalists in Google’s nationwide Doodle 4 Google competition. The Doodle 4 Google competition asked students in grades K-12 to design a Google logo inspired by the question “What if…?†The winning student’s doodle will be displayed on Google’s…
School Brief: Poverty roundtable
Burmadeane George, director of Phoenix Academy, was one of 30 educators from across the country selected to attend an Oxford Roundtable entitled “Child Poverty: Educational Initiatives and Consequences.†The Oxford Roundtable is a nonprofit organization aimed at conducting gatherings that allow citizens of the United Kingdom and the United States to discuss public policy issues…
Carrboro High’s athletic director builds new foundation
By Sean Umstead Courtesy of the Carrboro Commons When the Charlotte Bobcats began their inaugural season in 2004, they won a modest 22 percent of their games. Setting up one team clearly has challenges; setting up 20 new teams could be overwhelming. That is what April Ross, Carrboro High School’s athletic director, has on her…
Kindergarten students at McDougle Elementary School sell flowers as part of the school’s annual “Bunny Ville†event in teacher Karen Reid’s classroom on Friday. For Bunny Ville, students hosted their own businesses, including a pizza shop, ice cream shop, museum, hospital, flower garden and art jewelry shop, and classroom visitors received $10 in “bunny bucks 
School Brief: Blood Done talk
Timothy Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name, will discuss his book and racial challenges at 6:30 p.m. on May 14 in the Carrboro High School Café Commons. His book tells the story of the racial and sexual tension surrounding a 1970 lynching in his hometown of Oxford.
School Brief: Tech champs
Carrboro High School students competed in the 29th annual North Carolina Technology Students of America conference in Greensboro on April 12-15. Natalie Carpenter and Amy Dreher received first-place awards for Manufacturing Prototype. In addition, Dakota Pahel-Short received a second-place award for Architectural CAD 2D and Aidan Burns and Sally Rothwell won second place for Construction…
School Brief: Chess champs
Chapel Hill-Carrboro students recently competed in the 35th Scholastic Chess Championship. The Rashkis Elementary School Chess Team finished second in the state in their category. Team members are Dane Simon, Hans Singh, Benjamin Senior, Thomas Wang, Joshua Lai, Iyin Battle, Arnav Subramanya, Anida Manocha, Nathaniel Lai and Jeffrey Williams. Dane Simon won second place in…
School Brief: Teacher grants
The Public School Foundation presented 31 Student Enrichment Grants to staff members from across the district at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meeting last week.
School Brief: Special PTA
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will hold a meeting to organize a chapter of the Special Education Parent Teachers Association in Chapel Hill on May 14 from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Public Library on Estes Drive. At the meeting, members will elect officers, enroll charter members, approve bylaws and pay $10 membership…
School Brief: Math champs
Ten students from Phillips Middle School competed in the State Math Finals at UNC-Greensboro on May 1. Students who placed in the contest include: Alex Kelly, ninth place in Algebra I; Bernie Almadoss, 13th in Algebra I; Sheila Deng, fifth in Geometry; Yu Wang, eighth in Geometry; Alice Huang, 20th in geometry; William Holub-Moorman, 16th…
School Brief: Excellent writer
Claire Royals Wilson, a fifth grader at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School, recently received the National Award of Excellence from the PTA’s National Reflections Program. For the contest, Claire submitted a piece entitled “One Smile†in the intermediate division of the literature category.